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I quit smoking tobacco. The trick is linking in your mind more pleasure to NOT smoking cigarettes, and linking MASSIVE amounts of pain to smoking cigarettes.
Once I made that correlation in my mind, I never again smoked a tobacco cigarette. Not once since 1997. Also, here is a good way to stop smoking, www.air-2.com it is a vaporizer, where you can load tobacco or any herb... and get only the good essense from the plant. Many people are using it as an alternative to smoking cigs. The fire from the cig, and the heat really bugged me. The fact that I am burning all these toxins and having them go in my lungs and body, bothered me. My g-ma died of lung C... and I linked that to the experience. Plus that stanky clothes, car and fingers from smoking. I felt so much better when I stopped smoking. Very pleasureable and rewarding to have quit. |
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You have to get to the point of, "smoking, whats that anyways, those filthy rotten smokers, they should quit and clean up the worlds air and save a lot of money." Hope I helped. For your retirement fund, put the 3 bucks a day in your IRA for the rest of your working life and see how much money you retire with, AND have healthy lungs. :thumb: BE a non smoker now. Good luck. |
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My wife keeps saying she's going to quit... blames her habit on an oral fixation. I've offered to give her something to suck on ANY TIME she wants.
In all seriousness, I'm done arguing with her about her smoking... I know she won't quit until she's ready to quit. Hopefully that sooner than later. I used to smoke quite a bit, but I've always been strange in my "quitting." I, too, like to smoke -- it's not about addiction, and the reason I can say that is used to I would smoke a pack a day for a few months, then quit outright for a few months, no problems whatsoever. None. Zip. Then, six months or a year later, I'd decide to start again. This last time around, I got bronchitis in January and decided that was a good time to quit again (since I wouldn't have one while I was sick, anyway). I haven't even contemplated having one since then. And summer's always been a deterrant for me -- I don't like inhaling hot air. (I'm full enough as it is). I consider myself lucky in that regard -- no withdrawal symptoms, never a need to smoke, or mood changes when I do/don't have one... just the taste and ritual involved. |
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I've not read thru this whole thread yet, hopefully I won't continue reading and discover you caved in fraz. Stick with it, bro! I've been a pack a day smoker for 17 years, 1/2 my lifespan. The last year or so have been a constant battle to not buy another pack. Used to always buy cartons, much cheaper, but I tried to quit again about a year ago, and it's been single packs or 2-3 pack specials ever since. Some kind of mental hedge that if the nerve strikes strong to quit, I won't throw away as much $, yet I haven't in a year, hence have spent a helluva lot more $ on smokes the last year. The last couple weeks especially have been hard, been so close to throwing them out so many times. I just had orthodontic work, and had them removed 3 weeks ago, picked up the retainer 2 weeks ago. Smoking with that thing in there causes some nasty dry mouth, and I've really been struggling back and forth. Quitting is a bitch to pull off, no doubt about it... |
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within weeks i was back up to more than 2 packs a day... some people swear by it, though... |
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so you're one of the lucky ones... but one day the tobacco bug will take over and you'll be hooked... did you know that tobacco is a gateway drug to heroin?? |
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but lucky for me, he's rather orally fixated. :p And he smoked for 25 some years so it was very difficult to quit as he'd tried gum, toothpicks, the patch, cold turkey, etc. He's been smoke free now for four years. |
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Smoke Away :thumb:
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I just want to kill, mame and mutilate! If one more person walks in my office with a problem I am going to throw them through the window! I need nicotene! :# Hang in there Tim! |
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I might well be done with this crap.
I just caved in and fired one up. TASTED AND SMELLED LIKE SHIT. I took three drags off the damned thing and crushed it out. I have absolutely no desire to have another one. Yuck. :cuss: |
I forgot to mention my nicotine replacement was called Nicotrol Inhaler. It's a little plastic thing that is about the size of a cigarette and you place a nicotine cartridge inside it. In the beginning, I would use one cartridge a day (eventually about one every 4 days) and I would take all my normal smoke breaks outside, etc and just replaced cigs with this thing. It felt like a cig between my fingers so that helped as well. Whenever I had the urge to smoke, I had that dang thing with me allll the time. Finally after four months, I took the nicotine out of it. I kept the plastic thing in my pocket for up to a year and would just hold it sometimes like it was a cig LOL/ it worked for me. I just added up; I haven't smoked in 959 days (Jan 1, 2003) and I usually smoked 25 a day. That's 23,975 cigarettes that I haven't smoked....Wonder if I put them in single file lines, how many lengths of a football field is that...rofl...
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Unfortunately I fell off the wagon a few weeks back. I chewed 4 or 5 pouches of RedMan & Levi before I realized that I was probably gonna ween myself back on the cope if I didn't get it under control quickly. |
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So I'm basically just really, really pissed off. :# But I'm not smoking. God, did my mouth always taste like this? I just gargled and still taste the smoke, only from three drags. Gag. :Lin: |
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Heh! |
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Thats when you hope for a bj or a handjob anyway. |
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I suggest something from the swallow family. :D |
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Being pissed off and irritable will go away in about a week or two. Hang in there and let your friends/co-workers know. Yes after you quit smoking to kiss a smoker is just friggin gross. |
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Everytime you want a cigarette at home. Get on your bike or go jog a coulpe of blocks. Everytime I got the urge I did this. Day or night. When you get home you have increased your heart rate. Basically you have done about the same thing that nicotine does for you. Then you will relax back to normal just like after a smoke.
Smoked 17 years and quit cold turkey. I was so addicted to those things, that occasionally I couldnt even finish my shower without lighting one up when i was in there (yuck), so If I can do it, anybody can. Good Luck, it will get easier. PS> Dont quit if you are not prepared to gain a little or lot of weight. |
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Don't worry, I don't think any of you have anything to worry about. |
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But not to get off topic. Quentin is watching.STFU You about to make it past the worst part hang in there. |
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You could always use a straw first and drain the reservoir :shrug: P.S. Yes, your breath is that bad, it gets better dude, good job and good luck |
Day 3. Sense of taste and smell are starting to come back. Now I'm starting realize that I really hate coffee, too. :grr:
Very irritable today, but I really don't have any desire whatsoever to smoke. I think the worst is passed. I do miss the breaks, though. :cuss: |
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Good job, keep it up!!! |
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It was last night that I took a couple of puffs off the "cheating" cigarette, so no, it hasn't been 48 hours. And yes, gochiefs, smoking dulls your sense of taste. If it didn't, nobody would smoke. |
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2 of the best I've heard back2back in awhile!!! |
Hang in there fraz, wish I could offer you a quittin compadre, but I caved and bought 3 packs last night. There's somethin about once I spend that money, I've got to use it, just can't throw em out. Weak...
P.S. Got one of those summer cold things to go along with the new retainers. Sneezin, now hackin up crap, which takes awhile to pass as a smoker. I get a cold and it takes a month to get through it. My cube neighbor was worried about me this morning. I need to quit these fuggers... |
Day 4. Still getting cravings, but not as bad. Still trying to come to grips with the "something is missing" aspect, which is becoming less annoying. Still coughing shit up in the morning, but not as much. I've been ravenously hungry since I quit and eating A LOT. Hope that urge goes away soon.
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whatever you do don't start drinking to curb the cravings for at least another week. it will drive you back into the aems of the enemy.
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There is a curve that once you get past the top, everything starts to feel better, even mentally. Hang in there! PS Yes you will gain some weight...but I've never coughed up fat before. :D |
Hang in there, Tim. Drink water instead of eating when those pangs come. Maybe you can get some stick pretzels to help. Those won't blow you up too badly.
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Boy, I'm jonesing for a friggin smoke now with the game starting.... :cuss:
I'm gonna go through a lot of gum tonight. |
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It'll be nasty here later. :evil: |
Good luck, Fraz.
If I can quit, anybody can. Hang tough. |
not like it's any consolation
I first quit at 21 yr old, didn't get it done till i's 38. hope you get it done quicker than i did. |
I gained weight when I quit smoking, body chemistry changes. Eat a lot of apples, carrot sticks & celery-crunchy, hi-fiber stuff. More satisfaction per calorie. Plus, like the old Volkswagen ads said, you're not 'farfrompoopen'.
When I had that 'something is missing' feeling, I'd go outside and just take some deep breaths. You've been doing 'deep breathing exercises' thru a cigareet for years now...nobody said you had to quit the deep breathing, just stop doing it thru a filter-tip. It helped me, YMMV, of course. It's one way to keep taking 'smoke breaks' for a while. Just don't go hang with the other smokers. You're no longer part of the herd, and they'll smell the difference and shun you. Odd, but true. Get a couple of these, and take one to work, put one by the remote, etc... http://www.megafitness.com/def0005.html Luck! |
Got an update Frazod?
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Hasn't stopped me from getting sick, though. I feel like shit and my throat is killing me. Hardly seems fair. :cuss: |
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I think the stress of quitting + lungs cleaning themselves out + normal germ contact = getting sick. Once you've been quit 2 months stick with it, the hard part's over... |
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Your 'celia', the little hairs that move the goo up and down the windpipe are all burned out. They'll come back someday, but what's happening now is pretty standard.
Just pretend you're a West Coast offense 'guru' and Hackett up. |
BTW.... over two weeks now and going strong. The wife hasn't had one since Friday as well. She's taking Zyban, and it seems to be working.
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Kick ass. Keep going. I wanted to buy a can tonight while at the convenience store and it's been 8 months for me.
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good on you, fraz...
you're making your life longer, better, and cheaper by quitting... stay with it... it takes time to break old habits and make new ones... but you can do it... :thumb: :thumb: :thumb: |
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I started or stopped I guess on Friday been 3 days so far. I really need to make it stick. Congrats to you fraz
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Hang in there! |
I've read 72 hours for the body to get past the nicotine addiction, a month or more to get past the habits. As hard as it is, keep on it guys. Everone I've ever know that quit has been thrilled they did.
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Thanks, everybody. |
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Jesus, I smoked for over 23 years--it was past time for me to quit. The most surprising part for me is that the cravings for a smoke have dropped dramatically the last couple days. The 1st 48 hours however--what a fucking nightmare that was. |
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Well, the wife fell on her ass today and apparently smoked half a pack while I was at work. :shake:
But I'm doing fine. |
I average 3 smokes a day. Thats it. Ten cigs in a day and i feel my lungs are going to kill me. Sometimes i will go for days without it.
I just do it at work (sometimes) for something to do. I could never get addicted, i don't care for it that much. Been doing that for 15 years. |
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